Silenced by space : Where knowledge doesn’t count
| Autoři | |
|---|---|
| Rok publikování | 2026 |
| Druh | Recenzovaný odborný článek |
| Časopis / Zdroj | MEDIA, CULTURE & SOCIETY |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
| Citace | |
| www | online first |
| Doi | https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437261454504 |
| Klíčová slova | epistemic injustice; spatialised stigma; neighbourhood; disadvantage; credibility and place |
| Přiložené soubory | |
| Popis | This article examines how media discourse constructs epistemic legitimacy and marginality in relation to Zárubek, stigmatised neighbourhood in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Drawing on a comparative critical discourse analysis (CDA) of 14 regional and national media texts (2008–2025) alongside narrative interviews with long-term residents, the study interrogates how credibility, belonging, and voice are unevenly distributed through place-based representations. The analysis identifies five recurring strategies in media coverage: pejorative naming, metaphorical spatialisation, visual erasure, technocratic abstraction, and temporal shifts from degradation to regeneration. Each of these discursive practices enacts what I term spatialised epistemic injustice: the systematic devaluation of knowledge through the symbolic disqualification of place. Narrative counter-discourses reveal forms of irony, kinship naming, and care that I conceptualise as epistemic place-attachment: practices of belonging that sustain dignity and credibility under conditions of symbolic violence. By integrating feminist epistemology with place-attachment theory, the article develops a new framework for analysing how media logics reproduce urban marginality and how residents reassert epistemic dignity through everyday practices. |